One for the Catholic Girls
Simon Joyner

I was drunk, I didn't let on
As I stood before your door at dawn
I guess I might have awaken the dogs
Because the shadows started coughing them out

So I put my hands into my hair
And I pulled and let it hurt
There was a light going out somewhere
I thought it hear through the wood

That held the house together
That kept me out here in the cold
I knew the sun was going to change the weather
But I was looking she never would show

I was jamming my hands in my pockets
And I was thinking about throwing a stone
But if I had the courage I knew that I lost it
I was too scared to walk myself home

So lit out on a concrete rail
And I made my way through the dead park
I could still here the cicadas wailing
As the morning fog rolled off the dark

I had the whole night in my lungs
I was breathing so hard and so fast
I scored one for the catholic girls
And I tried to stuff it all in a box

You know the kind that comes with a key
You can throw in the lake or bury somewhere
I though about the kid you knew before me
And how he held onto that lock of your hair

He kept it tied up in a sad rubber band
In his dresser drawer on the right side
Now he walks around with strands of you all over him
As if you were still spending the night

I was jamming my hands in my pockets
I swear I was zero at the bones
If I felt my courage making a come back
I was drunk, I didn't let on

Cause I was doing like my pa had always done
I was trying to rise back from the dead
Saying all those ghost prayers before the storm
Hoping God won't hit me over the head

I guess I was out for a revelation
I was kicking out agaist the darkness
I had dew all over my body
From sleeping in a ball under a park bench

I was so sure I would never make it
I remember like it happened only yesterday
I don't know why I'm still holding onto it
Don't hearts break nearly every other day

When you try to make the sweetness last
Cause everything happens so fast
And your waiting with half dry eyes
For something to fall or something to rise


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  Alabaster   Amen   Answer Night   Ballad in the Past   Blue   Born of Longing   Bring Down Goliath   Catherine   Christine   Cold Outside Your Window, Mama   Cole Porter   Courting Mary   Death of a Lady   Disappear from Here   Double Joe   Eagle on a Pole   Eight Verses   Epilogue in D   Evening Song to Sally   Everything's at Stake   Farewell to a Percival   Fearful Man   Flannery O'Connor   Fluoride   Folk Song for Sara   Fools Gold on Main Street   Geraldine   Ghetto Blaster   Godzilla   Goodbye, So Long, Farewell, Goodbye   Grapefruit   Halleluja   Happy Woman   Hold on to Your Breath   Hollywood   Homebase   Hot Tears   Hotel Suite   Hotter Than Satan's Heels   How I Regret That I've Done Wrong   I Ask of You These Things   I Would Not Try to Break Ties with Me   I Wrote a Song About the Oceans   If I Left Tomorrow   Insomnia   Is This How Generous You Are?   It Will Never Be This Way Again   Jeff Engel Rules   Joy Division   Judas Blues   Kerosene   Last Night I Had a Conversation with God   Long Dark Night   Love Is Worth Suffering For   Medicine Blues   Milk   Morning Is Weary   My Life Is Sweet   My Side of the Blues   Nocturne   Now We Must Face Each Other   Obituary   Only Love Can Bring You Peace   Open Window Blues   Out Into the Snow   Oxygen   Parachute   Peace in My Time   Petri-Dish   Promethius   Pseudonym Song   R Is for Riot   Robin Hood   Roll On   Ruby Slippers   Sad Stories   Seizure   She Without Shelter   Sinner's Song   Sorrow Floats   Superglue   Swing   That Was You   The Arsonist   The Blue Hammer   The House   The Only Living Boy in Omaha   The Passenger   The Rain Asked for a Holiday   The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is a Stra...   The Simultaneous Occurrance of True Love....   Thoughts of a Dog   Three Well Aimed Arrows   Two Friends Take a Bow for the Record   Vegetables   Veteran's Hospital Song   When She Drops Her Veil   When Will the Sun Rise Again?   Yellow Precious Letter   Yesterday, Tomorrow and In Between   You Don't Know Me   You, David, Maria, and Me   Your Old Haunts

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